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℘℘℘ The greatest failure in America is the failure to stay young. It is a failure of imagination, the inability to grasp the alternatives offered by surgery, cosmetology, and pharmacology. It is a failure of will, the indiscipline that results in flagging energies, flabby bodies, and clogged arteries. It is a failure of financial planning, the incapacity to amass the resources needed to deploy the full panoply of anti-aging techniques and technologies. Most basic of all, it is a failure of genetic foresight, the prenatal passivity that accepts a poisoned lineage of physical and mental i...

There is a school of thought that writer’s block comes from having no ideas at all. I like to refer to it as the ‘creative juices’ not flowing enough or even at all. Others say it comes from an overflow of ideas when there is a clash of interests that your mind cannot narrow it down to one. Advertisement However, my experience with writer’s block was different, stemming up from the fear of not being able to pen down what I most needed to write. A crippling unease invades my psyche; I begin to wonder if there is a moral code for writing about other people that have different life expe...

The language of African literature The debate over the language of African literature has continued to generate significant interest ever since the emergence of African literary writing in European languages. This exciting debate on the most appropriate language of African literature continues to this day from the 1960’s. When one looks at any given language in this world, one sees hundreds and thousands of years of experience. For instance, a farming community has an elaborate language that describes the seasons and crops. Their proverbs and idioms reflect that they are farmers. A hunting ...

Daily Post Nigeria Published There is a school of thought that writer’s block comes from having no ideas at all. I like to refer to it as the ‘creative juices’ not flowing enough or even at all. Others say it comes from an overflow of ideas when there is a clash of interests that your mind cannot narrow it down to one. However, my experience with writer’s block was different, stemming up from the fear of not being able to pen down what I most needed to write. A crippling unease invades my psyche; I begin to wonder if there is a moral code for writing about other people that have diffe...

news Ezinma: How Beyoncé's violinist is tearing up the rules © Decca Records Growing up, violin prodigy Meredith Ezinma Ramsay hated her middle name. "I was so embarrassed by it," she says. "I was like, 'Why couldn't you have called me something normal, like Haley?'" She was given the name by her father, a mathematician from Guyana. Derived from the Igbo language of Nigeria, it means "true beauty" or "good fortune" - but Ramsay didn't appreciate its significance until she read Chinua Achebe's masterpiece Things Fall Apart. In Achebe's novel, Ezinma is the king's beloved daughter, whose spi...